[H2opeful Women] Water Champions are Ageless!
Meet Angella Tassas from Moyo, Uganda, the northernmost district on the border of Sudan. In the past 3 years she has been participating in an intensive Women and WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) training program with Global Women’s Water Initiative. A retired nurse and former refugee, she returned back to Moyo after having lived in Sudan during Uganda’s Civil War.
She knew that in order to rebuild her community, health and wellness was a priority. As a lifelong health educator, she had always been able to advise her community how to practice proper hygiene and how to stay healthy.
When she came to the GWWI training, she learned more tools and solutions to connect good health with access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). This not only enhanced her community health education, she also learned how to build technologies (water tanks, toilets, water filters) and make products (soap, shampoo, chlorine) that could improve community health.
Because of her new knowledge and activities - having built tanks, toilets, water filters and selling soap and offering WASH education - she was invited to be the Secretary for Water and Works in the Moyo District. She is now bringing women’s voices to an issue where it is sadly underrepresented. At 67 years young, Angella is poised to influence local policy in her region.
This just proves that you can be a Water Champion at any age!
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